GRE Word List

PENDULOUS

poised without visible support

The meaning of the word pendulous is poised without visible support.

Random words

WordMeaning
mawkishlacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste
epigrama concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought
confinesomething (such as borders or walls) that encloses
purgatoryan intermediate state after death for expiatory purification
compensatoryto be equivalent to : counterbalance
glossyhaving a surface luster or brightness
gargoylea spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building
yoretime past and especially long past
deferput off
constraintthe act of constraining